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I’ve been study for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

This exam tests knowledge and skills in managing multiple systems using Red Hat Ansible Engine and executing common system administration tasks across a number of systems with Ansible. Ansible is the automation framework used by multiple Red Hat products, so Red Hat Certified Engineers have a head start on automating other products in the catalog beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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A Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) is able to perform the following tasks:

  • Managing and troubleshooting systemd services during the boot process
  • Network configuration and basic troubleshooting
  • Managing local storage, creating and using file systems
  • Firewall management with firewalld
  • Automating installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux® using kickstart
  • Manage SELinux settings
  • Using NFS and Samba shared filesystems
  • iSCSI initiator and target configuration
  • Domain Name System (DNS) troubleshooting and caching name server
  • Providing Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) file servers
  • Apache HTTPD web server management
  • MariaDB SQL database configuration
  • Postfix Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) nullclient for servers
  • Bash scripting for automation